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James L. Carroll: Roadblocks to the Singularity?
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James L. Carroll. Tuesday, February 19, 2013. Roadblocks to the Singularity? Book review of "Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100". This was a fun book, but I believe that he is wildly overly pessimistic with regard to his predictions concerning strong AI. He proposed six "roadblocks to the singularity" which I would like to respond to in turn. He writes:. I believe that there are three reasons that this is incorrect:. And the Brain is a proof b...
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James L. Carroll: August 2011
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James L. Carroll. Thursday, August 18, 2011. James Carroll's Review of The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution. My rating: 3 of 5 stars. This book was only so so, and there were two main reasons. First, his evidence:. It simply wasn't that good. And it's not because there isn't good evidence for evolution. But the whole way through this book I kept thinking things like: "I could produce better evidence than that! Second, his atheism:.
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James L. Carroll: The Singularity May not be Near, but You Have Yet to Convince Me
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James L. Carroll. Tuesday, January 17, 2012. The Singularity May not be Near, but You Have Yet to Convince Me. I would like to take a moment to respond briefly to Michael Shermer's fascinating article: "In the Year 9595, why the Singularity is not Near, but Hope Springs Eternal" in Scientific American, January 2012. Moore's Law will ultimately fail too late to stop the creation of the hardware needed for true AI. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). My Web Home page. James L. Carroll has a PhD in. I atte...
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James L. Carroll: June 2011
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James L. Carroll. Tuesday, June 14, 2011. GDP, Going Further Back, Optimism Again. I earlier blogged about Why I am an Optimist. In that post I presented the following graph of GDP between 1930-2011:. My Per Capita, inflation adjusted GDP graph for 1930-2011. I was fascinated by the exponential growth in GDP, even in inflation adjusted per-capita GDP, and craved more data. Since getting data from the future by Hepatoscopy. In any event, I looked around the internet for some more data, and found this data.
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James L. Carroll: November 2014
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James L. Carroll. Wednesday, November 26, 2014. Ferguson, Uncertainty, and a Way to Move Forward. I have been silent about the Ferguson matter so far, but I think it's time that I try to articulate a few of my thoughts on this matter. The testimony of Darren Wilson, and that of those others who saw the event are ultimately unreliable. The result of this, is that I simply do not know if Darren Wilson murdered Michael Brown or not. And I believe that the certainty with which some others (on both sides)...
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James L. Carroll: Welcome to the Future, Why I am an Optimist
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James L. Carroll. Tuesday, May 10, 2011. Welcome to the Future, Why I am an Optimist. A little while ago, I posted a chart I had created on the US GDP to facebook. I created this chart because I was curious about how the current recession had affected the US GDP. This is what I came up with:. My Per Capita, inflation adjusted GDP graph. However, as a friend of mine pointed out, GDP is often not a good measure of "productivity." He cited the following article. In much the same way, the current definition ...
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Thank you for tuning in, our regularly scheduled chaos will return in just a moment: January 2011
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Thank you for tuning in, our regularly scheduled chaos will return in just a moment. Wednesday, January 12, 2011. I got us another dog. I saw her on the animal shelter website and it was love at first site.or something like that. She is also a pug, and her name is Tyra. She is older than Millie, and calmer. It's been kind of fun so far having 2 dogs. I do believe that Justin is wondering if I need to be committed or something. Wednesday, January 5, 2011. Just a few more end of the year pics.
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Thank you for tuning in, our regularly scheduled chaos will return in just a moment: EVERyTHING IS DIFFERENT!
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Thank you for tuning in, our regularly scheduled chaos will return in just a moment. Wednesday, June 13, 2012. I haven't been on blogger for a couple of months, and now everything is different! I have no idea what I am doing now. I still can't believe how HUGE Daphne's eyes look in this picture! I really wish that this picture turned out better.Their costumes looked awesome on stage! Abby got to start a tap class this year.she did really well considering she only have 5 lessons or so! Boy does time fly!
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Family O Lindyhoppers: August 2014
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Clay, Cullen, Cashel, Tuppence, Pherson and Noisette. Men are what their mothers made them." -Ralph Waldo Emerson. Saturday, August 30, 2014. This weekend we'll be doing the Civil War days and then September and school is upon us. I spent the rest of my birthday money (after buying myself a skirt and dress for super on sale so that I can now dress vintage) on this boat. We are in love. Normally this puppy costs $500 and is custom made but I scored it for $50. Finally finished the last of my preserving...
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Family O Lindyhoppers: March 2014
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Clay, Cullen, Cashel, Tuppence, Pherson and Noisette. Men are what their mothers made them." -Ralph Waldo Emerson. Sunday, March 16, 2014. I really need to start doing this more often so that when I do it it's not such a huge production. So this last weekend was the St. Patrick's day parade and the Rocky Mountain Oyster Festival (fondly called the Testicle Festival). We visited a museum, went to the park, hit some stuff around town and visited Clay in the booth for his restaurant. So we visited Sonoma Co...